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<p class="heading0">ChartDirector 7.0 (Java Edition)</p>
<p class="heading1"><a href="Chart.htm">Chart</a>.<wbr>CTime</p>
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<p class="heading2a">Usage</p>
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public static double CTime(java.util.Date time)
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<p class="heading2">Description</p>
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Converts a java.util.Date to ChartDirector's <a href="dateformat.htm">date/time</a> format.<br><br>
In common date/time charts, the x-axis represents dates/times, while the y-axis represents numeric data. For these cases, ChartDirector provides overloaded methods that supports both numeric values and java.util.Date values as inputs.<br><br>
However, it is possible in some special applications, both x and y-axes can represent dates/times. ChartDirector supports this type of usage, but its API only allows "double precision numbers" as y-value inputs. In these cases, CTime can be used to convert java.util.Date to ChartDirector's <a href="dateformat.htm">date/time</a> format, which uses double precision numbers to represent dates/times.
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<td>time</td><td>(Mandatory)</td><td>A java.util.Date object.</td>
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A number representing dates/time in ChartDirector's <a href="dateformat.htm"> date/time</a> format.
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